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From: kend@mrloog.WR.TEK.COM (Ken Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Mercury delay lines
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Date: 8 Jun 90 16:18:17 GMT
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In article <1990Jun7.210822.5230@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
>In article <2694@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> kend@mrloog.WR.TEK.COM (Ken Dickey) writes:
>>Maurice Wilkes's EDSAC, the first stored program to operate, used mercury
>>delay lines ...  I don't know if it was ever built.  Anyone?

>Accoring to Wilkes, the EDSAC ran its first program on 6 May 1949, about
...

Note that the `...' elides the reference I made to EDVAC [*not* EDSAC].
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The EDVAC design was done by a group at the Moore School of Engineering
along with von Neumann.  It would not have made sense for the `first
stored program to operate' never to have been built.

Nits, nits, nits!
-Ken Dickey			kend@mrloog.wr.tek.com